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I appreciated the commentary on my last proposal for the Planetarium. I learned from your insight that I was being too literal and not portraying my own beliefs or content that I feel strongly about.

When I think of Astronomy and its Celestial bodies, I think of the religions that are formed from it. The stars and planets were tracked by various cultures from ancient to current and a certain spirituality was formed out of tracking the movement of these heavenly objects. The Sun as it made its cycle from winter to summer brought a new harvest and was thought that this was a gift of God.

Here I have a statue Jesus Christ replacing the seated Copernicus as a welcome to Adler's guests. It is a play off of Copernicus's Heliocentric Solar system and the Pagan belief that the Sun was their celestial Son of God. Structures of warship were erected by the Pagans based on the alignment of the Sun and its transition through its Summer Equinox. There have been claims that the story of Jesus is a representation of Pagan Beliefs. The Zeitgeist Movie - Religion